The Lee girls basketball team gave its seniors a memorable send off in what was likely their final home game at Chaparral Center Tuesday night.

The playoff-bound Lady Rebels hosted District 2-6A champion Wolfforth Frenship in both teams’ district finale, and Lee was up for the challenge.

The Lady Rebels held the lead throughout most of the game during a defensive-oriented 40-37 win over the Lady Tigers, to finish District 2-6A play with a three-game winning streak.

Frenship standout point guard Maci Maddox missed a game-tying 3-point attempt right before the buzzer, and Lee (17-15, 6-4 in District 2-6A) ended the district campaign in a tie for third place with rival Midland High (22-13, 6-4).

MHS and Lee will flip a coin today to determine the No. 3 and No. 4 playoff seeds.

The fourth seed will face District 1-6A champion El Paso Franklin in the bi-district round of the playoffs at a site, date and time to be determined, while the third seed will play either El Paso Pebble Hills or El Paso Eastwood.

“We’re very excited,” Lady Rebels head coach Alfred Acosta said. “The girls are playing hard. They’re responding and handling adversity, just doing a lot of things that we’ve been preaching all year. There’s no better time for it to sinking in and us really buying into it than this time of year.”

After holding a 22-18 advantage at halftime, Lee relinquished its lead in the third quarter when Maddox sank a 3-pointer to push the Lady Tigers (28-6, 8-2) ahead, 27-24, with 3:47 on the clock.

But the Lady Rebels, who have been playing their best basketball of late, charged back as sophomore post Paige Low hit a 3 before the third-quarter buzzer to vault Lee to a 31-30 advantage.

“I told them in the one of the timeouts, I said, ‘Hey, listen, we’ve been challenged way more than this in practice. All right, this is just one of those things, we’ve got to overcome, we’ve got to battle through,’” Acosta said. “Every single one of those girls to the coaches to the managers to everybody, that’s a team win. They knew exactly what to expect. We did not feel at any point in the game that we were going to lose.”

Trailing in the fourth, Lee senior point guard Alaysha Green sank a go-ahead 3 to push her team to a 36-34 lead with 2:40 remaining.

After Frenship tied the game at 36-all on a drive to the basket by Ashton Beeles, shooting guard Braydyn Hill gave the Lady Rebels the lead for good with a one-handed layup while dribbling to the basket with less than a minute to play.

“I am extremely proud,” Green said of her team’s effort. “As you can see I’m emotional. We went out there and we played as a team. We played as a sisterhood. We did what we had to do for each other and we were the toughest team tonight.”

Hill led Lee with 13 points and five steals, while Low reached double figures with 11 points.

Senior Quinci Strambler had four steals for a Lady Rebels defense that limited the Lady Tigers to only seven fourth-quarter points.

“This is where we want to be,” Green said. “We are peaking at our best at the right time like coach says. If we keep doing this and playing tough, we are going to go far.”

Versatile shooting guard Cassandra Awatt had a team-high 12 points for Frenship, which will share the co-District 2-6A title with Amarillo Tascosa. Abre Godfrey grabbed 11 rebounds for the Lady Tigers and Maddox spearheaded Frenship’s defensive effort with five steals.